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Your review of The Strange Tactics of Extremism is a clear example of the danger, on the left, of the adoption of McCarthyite tactics by people who should know better. You start out by saying "To the vast majority of Americans, Barry Goldwater's defeat was an unmistakable repudiation of...
But you then go on to talk as if "Radical Right" were also synonymous with "John Birch Society," "Christian Crusade," and so forth. You refer to "the techniques of distortion and innuendo used by the radical right to question the loyalty of many patriotic Americans." I don't see how...
(When Eisenhower and Nixon meet Goldwater, it's news. As the three conferred in a Manhattan hotel room last week a CRIMSON reporter hid between the slats of the radiator to produce this transcript of the conversation.)
"Enough Negativism." Smylie's own statement came in a speech last week opening a Denver meeting of the Republican Governors' Association. Of the Governors and Governors-elect who attended, virtually all had opposed Goldwater's nomination, and virtually all would like to see Dean Burch resign. As...
Beyond that, the Governors' final report produced a redefinition of some moderate G.O.P. principles that had been noticeably missing from Goldwater's convention platform. They heartily endorsed the 1964 civil rights bill and said flatly that government must be "necessarily active in many areas of human need" such...